LAS VEGAS (April 30, 2020) – Voted #1 cleanest hotel in DTLV six years in a row and widely recognized and reviewed for its immaculate receptions, Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino’s commitment to clean was honored this month with the 2020 AAA Inspector’s Best of Housekeeping Award. This designation is given to properties who have received the entity’s highest score of “A” for two consecutive years. Just 25% of all approved properties earn this AAA badge of cleanliness and Downtown Grand is the only property in Downtown Las Vegas to be awarded.

The award comes on the heels of the property’s #GoodCleanFun initiative which will be launched in conjunction with the hotel’s reopening. Anchored by the housekeeping team and carried out by all departments, the effort will go beyond the call of duty in all front-of-house and back-of-house areas to ensure guests feel safe and stay safe in a post-pandemic world. Along with social distancing measures and general reminders on how guests can help play their part, stringent policies and procedures will be implemented in gaming, food/drink service, hotel check-in, common areas, entertainment venues, and rooms. 

“As we continue to operate and co-exist in a world with infectious viruses, Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino wants to assure all of its guests and visitors that we are committed to protecting your Vegas experience,” said John Culetsu VP/Managing Director of Downtown Grand. “Our award-winning housekeeping team will continue to lead the way to ensure you enjoy a spotless stay. The single most important thing we can offer our guests upon reopening is good, clean fun and we promise to do just that.” About Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino:Awarded the 2019 TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence and the 2020 AAA Inspector’s Best of Housekeeping Award, Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino is a unique hospitality and entertainment destination right in the heart of revitalized downtown Las Vegas. Located on 3rd Street between Ogden and Stewart, Downtown Grand encompasses an entire urban block of hotel, casino and dining amenities. With its third hotel tower under construction and set to open in 2020, the property currently features an 18-story and 25-story tower adjoined by a walking bridge elevated over 3rd Street, with 629 guest rooms and suites offering luxury accommodations that set a new standard for sophistication and style in downtown Las Vegas. Downtown Grand’s casino offerings include 25,000 square feet of gaming space with nearly 500 of the hottest slot machines, table games and a fully featured sports book powered by William Hill. Restaurants, bars and entertainment options include Freedom Beat, Furnace Bar, Art Bar, Sidebar, The Spare Room Showroom, and the award-winning Las Vegas steakhouse Triple George Grill. Partnering venues include the famous Hogs & Heifers saloon and Pizza Rock, renowned as one of the best pizza restaurants in the city. Downtown Grand features Citrus Grand Pool Deck, a rooftop pool experience with more than 35,000 square feet of entertainment and special event space, an infinity pool, restaurant and bar, semi-private cabanas, a fire pit and a grass seating area.

Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino is a member of the Preferred Hotels & Resorts Connect Collection. All guests of are eligible to enroll in the I Prefer hotel rewards program, which extends points redeemable for cash-value Reward Certificates, elite status, and special benefits such as complimentary Internet to members upon every stay at more than 700 participating Preferred Hotels & Resorts locations worldwide.For more information, call (702) 719-5100 or go to DowntownGrand.com.

Model Profile

Gisele Bundchen was born on July 20th, 1980 in Horizontina, Brazil. While Bundchen identifies as Brazilian, and doesn’t actually speak German, her family is of German descent. One of five sisters, Bundchen also has a twin named Patricia.

           Though originally interested in sports, Gisele was discovered by Elite Model Management while at a shopping mall in the metropolis of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Shortly after, she placed second in Look of the Year, a competition hosted by Elite Model Management, which helped to kickstart her modeling career.

            Soon, Bundchen was off to New York Fashion Week. However, her critical acclaim came in 1998, when she began to make covers like Vogue Paris and British Vogue. In fact, Vogue has since credited Bundchen for singlehandedly ending beauty trends of the 1990s that preferred very thin, pale, and angular models.

            Gisele’s long run as a Victoria’s Secret Angel began in 2000, and is associated with the proliferation of a new beauty standard: tan skin and healthy curves. While every beauty standard has its associated pitfalls, it was this career move that landed Bundchen one of the last true ‘supermodel’ careers, characterized by over one thousand magazine covers and associated ‘it girl’ contracts and associations with top fashion brands.

While most women, from Kenya to the Polynesian Islands, would likely recognize a photo of Gisele Bundchen, the ‘it girl’ is also known in the US as the wife of NFL superstar, Tom Brady. While Brady’s new team, the Buccaneers, have good odds in NFC South futures, the move to Tampa Bay from the family’s long-time home in Massachusetts was a big one for the family of four. However, Bundchen has lived on the road intermittently since she first moved to New York City as a young adult, hinting that this supermodel and mother was likely unruffled by the big change.

            Additionally, Bundchen isn’t just the world’s last supermodel, nor a mother and wife. In the US in particular, the wives of top athletes tend to enjoy quite a bit of success on their own—but in Bundchen’s case, Tom Brady is more likely to be referred to as Gisele’s husband rather than vice versa. She’s an astute businesswoman and dedicated, passionate environmentalist. Throughout her life, she’s walked the catwalk as an elite model, spoken at the likes of the United Nations, and even recorded a few of her own music singles.

            However, while it may seem that Bundchen is a superstar beyond all scopes of ordinary living, she’s only human like the rest of us. Below are some trends associated with the starlet, as well as a few of her most notable crusades that apply to women everywhere.

Freckles

            Yes, Gisele Bundchen has freckles. While they’re no longer visible today, given her crack skincare routine that prohibits tanning her face beneath the sun as well as her affinity for strong makeup looks, Bundchen’s original late 90s shoots featured her freckles.

The freckles were spread across her nose and cheeks, and the model apparently had to fight to keep them visible. Given the elite model’s power starting as early as 2001, Bundchen can be credited with helping to bolster these natural beauty marks and helping to present them to the world as cute attributes that don’t need to be hidden or prevented.

Body Love

            While Bundchen has likely toppled the confidence of women given her superstar body through the decades, her openness to talk about her own struggles with self-image make her not only relatable, but responsible. She’s candidly spoken about being picked on once upon a time for being too tall and thin, but she’s also expounded on her own journey to love her body.

            Sure, many women still see Bundchen’s body as ‘perfect’, but the model’s own comments have revealed the amount of pressure she’s consistently lived under. While she lives with the benefits of beauty and worldwide renown, she’s also bound to maintain her body and her beauty if she wants to continue her career and maintain her ‘worth’ in the eyes of others.

            In 2015, Bundchen underwent plastic surgery to maintain her physique, but shares the depth of regret that she felt in changing her body not for herself, but for others. Everyone can relate to this journey, and Bundchen should be applauded for not only sharing her journey, but for being honest about the shortcomings within herself and decisions that she regrets.

Natural Hair

            For many women today, mini and portable curling and straightening irons are quite common. In fact, many carry these products in order to tidy up their look at work or prepare for a last-minute date. While Bundchen certainly didn’t invent or patent the portable curling iron, she is widely associated with the tousled waves that many women apply with curling irons.

Known as ‘the beach wave’, this look was first worn by Bundchen following her contract with Victoria’s Secret. While the company would later finish her hair with more refined curls and a notably darker tint, Bundchen’s original ashy blonde, slightly curled, effortless look remains a staple amongst women today.

Health Warrior

            Bundchen’s endeavors as an environmentalist are well-known, and should be celebrated as such. However, one of her lesser-known causes is to be open about her struggles with her well-being. Bundchen admits that she was involved in an extremely unhealthy lifestyle in the early 2000s that led her to suffer panic attacks.

While she eventually was medicated, Bundchen instead decided to undertake other alternatives to treat her restlessness. She changed her diet, focusing on plant-based foods, took up meditation, and even began a yoga regime. While this may not work for everyone, Gisele’s honesty about her own journey is what is most inspiring. She doesn’t pretend to have everything figured out, and given that no one can, it’s reassuring to hear about other people’s trials—but most especially from those who, like Gisele Bundchen, seem so removed from the everyday lifestyle of most people.